Stop-motion for addressing-machines.



F. DE MINICO. STOP MOTION FOR ADDRESSING MACHINES.

APPLlCATlON FILED SEPTIL \914.

Patented June 13, 1916.

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FRANK DE MINICO, or new YORK, N. Y.,

ASSIGNOR TO POLLAR-D-ALLING MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF YORK.

STOP-MOTION FOR ADDRESSING-MACHINES.

To allwhom it may concern.

Be it known that I, FRANK DE MINICO, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New, York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stop- Motions for Addressing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stop-motions for addressing machines andlhas for its object to providea device of the class specified simple in construction and reliable in operation.

. The present-application is divided out of my copending application for Letters Patsome suitable known means not shown. Be

ent for improvements in sheet feeding mechanisms filed June 20, 1-913,Serial Number 774,7 55. V

In the drawings accompanying this specification I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of my improvements and therein Figure l is a side elevation of so much of an addressing machine as will suffice to show the features of my invention; Fig. 2 is an end elevation corresponding to Fig. 1; Figs. 3 and 4 are side and'end elevations similar to those of Figs. 1 and 2 respectively, and illustrating the operation of my improvements; Fig. 5 is a fragmentary side elevation illustrating a further feature of operation.

For printing the addresses upon the sheets, I have chosen to employ for purposes of illustration a chain of address plates 58 comprising a plurality of individual articulated plates as 59. and 60, each bearing on its outer face a suitable address, not shown, but of a character well known in this art; For advancing these plates successively to printing position, I employ a drum or carrier 61 mounted for free rotation on shaft 62, which may. be supported for rotation by low drum 61 is table 56 for the support of a sheet or other article to be printed and below said table, parallel with shaft 62, is shaft 80. These shafts may be connected by suitable gearing of known character for causing shaft 80 to make one rotation for each passing prmting plate on drum 61.

Flanged rolls 63 and 66 may be provided for holding chain 5.8 in proper contact with drum 61 and for providing suitable fric tional resistance to the rotation of said drum. For rotating said drum from shaft Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 862,186.

Patented June 13, 1916.

Divided and this application filed September ed for free endwise movementin a suitable chamber 71 in drum 61, and said bolt is spring-urged to engagement with one or another of said holes as 68 of disk 67. For purjPOSQS hereinafter specified, it is desirable at times to withdraw bolt 70 from engagement with one or.another of the holes in disk 67, and for accomplishing said withdrawal. I provide said bolt with head 72 over-hanging the circular edge of disk 73 slidably mounted on shaft 62 at that end or side of drum 6]. opposite disk 67. Thus, by moving disk 73 from the position of Fig. 2 to that of Fig. 4, bolt 70 will be withdrawn from engagement 3 with a hole 68 of disk 67 as shown in Fig. 4, whereby said shaft 62 and disk 67 are permitted to rotate while drum 61 will remain at rest under the frictional resistance of rolls 63 and 66.

Drum shaft 62 is slowly rotated from shaft 80 by means hereinbefore referredto. Printing plates as 59 and 60 may be inked prior to their advancement to printing position, by some convenient known means, not shown. For pressing the sheet against that printing plate which is in printing position, said printing position being approximately "directly below shaft 62, I provide reciprocating platen 74. Said platen is arranged to reciprocate approximately vertically and is further arranged for yielding in the direction 'of advancement of the printing plates. To these ends I provide arm 75 pivotally mounted at 76 in bracket'77 depending from table 56, and in the free end of said arm printing platen 74 is pivotally mounted at 78, and co-axially therewith is roll 79 for coaction with cam 81 on shaft 80. Upstanding from'arm 75 is post 82, through a hole in which screw 83 is free to slide, and said sorewis threaded into platen 74. Spring 84 in l he noted that -ibie 56 is conveniently provided with aperinres 101 and 102 for the passage respectively of said platen 7 1 and lifting dog 100. (Jonveniently pivoted on stud 108 fixed. in bracket 10;, sniiably' supported hym-ezins n05 shown, is reel: arm 105. Said rock arm is provided with an upstanding bifurcated portion 106 for engaging pins 10? in the hub of disk 7: f'ivotaily mounted on and downwardly reaching from rock arm 105 is roll arm 10H, i: .ng pivotsliy mounted on ifs lower end mu 109. Said arm 103 is norma ly in sun" iniially vertical position and is held in that pee on egains pin 1'30 by pull spring ill, and Wnen said arm is in said normal position roll 10!) projects (lmvmvardly through opening 102 in. sable 5%; directly above and in posit-ion tn be en gagged by lifting dog 10?, that dog moves upwardly.

The operation of my impro ed mechanism is as follows: Sheet 9, in. :Rlvnncement over t ble 5'6 to the position. of Fi n-il! :1." roll 1C9, whereby that T01: and 2%) in F3 wiii he swung upward to the memes shim-n in said Fig. 5.

fore, when lifting i sition also jwn fail to enga' in sheet is idvenced 100 rises to the pin in said Fig. 5, it wiii mil 3.09. If, however, no ver table 56 to engage and lift roli 109, when printing piaten 74 moves upwardly for co-aetion with the printing plate there-above, lifting dog 100 Will ngage roll 109. as shown in Figs. 1 and seen 2, and lift that roll to the position of Figs. 3 and whereby rock arm 105 will be rotated on its stud 103, an arm 106 phereon will withdraw di tothat of agwhereby boltZO will bewithdrawn from engagement with disk 67, thus permitting that disk and shaft 62 to which it. is iii-:ei'l, {.0 roiate, while drum 61 remains at r&

has just been described, the ma; rewnted from skipping addresses in a sit naie any failure of sheet supply.

I claim: 7

1. In an addressing machine the combiso nation of address printing means comprising a rotatable shaft, a rotatable carrier on said shaft, printing plates on said carrier, a printing platen actuated for coac-tio'n with printing plate on said carrier, a pair 65 ot engaging clutch members, one fixed to said carrier and the other fixed to said shaft, and means operably connected with said platen for disengaging said clutch members, the operation at said disengaging 70 means being governed by the absence of a sheet from printing position.

K In an addressing machine the combination of a rotatable shaft, a rotatable carrier thereon, address printing means on said 76 carrier, a printing platen actual/ed toward and from said printing means, a pair of engaging clutch members, one fixed to said shaft and the ether fixed to sair carrier,

and means operably connected, with saidxgw plat n for disengaging said clutch memsaid clutch disengaging means being d to an inoperaiive position by a sheet in nriniing position.

he York and Stein of New York, this Mil-11in or fiepfeinber, i91 before two snbseribin Witnesses.

FRANK DE MINICO W itnesses:

WVILLiAM M. rease-u, CHAS. VF; Liv-Rim.

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